The following is a translation of an article in which I’m quoted by Norwegian reporter Thomas Paust in Nettavisen.no, an Oslo-based online publication. I used Google Translate and massaged the text slightly to capture meaning. Am happy to receive corrections – the original article in Norwegian is here.
Climate change could lead to mass psychosis
“We know [...]

I was interviewed on OneClimate TV, part of the One Climate Network, during the Copenhagen climate summit in December 2009.
Anuradha Vittachi, the show’s accomplished presenter and new media pioneer, was part of a broad-based civil society partnership that took on the superhuman task of live-streaming interviews around the clock from within the Bella Centre, helping [...]

On this recent post I wrote on The Huffington Post, I parse a pithy line that Bruce Sterling, sci-fi author, blogger, design critic at large, etc., delivered at South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) 2009. He said,
"In times of trouble like today, pessimists die quickly."
Enjoy my attempt to unpack, and kindly let me know what you [...]

To viewers of "Chai Time" on Omni TV who might have followed the link on the show to reach my blog, I thought I'd (a.) link to the article the host Tarannum referred to and (b.) say a little bit more about my background.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, I was awarded a scholarship [...]

I was surprised and humbled to be included among 100 or so thinkers whom leading sustainability publication Worldchanging asked the following question just prior to Obama's historic presidential victory:
In 100 words or less, what should the next president do in his first 100 days to address the planet’s most pressing problems?
My two cents?
Coordinated Nationwide Public [...]

As earlier noted, the Realistic Sanctuary Blog is now affiliated with Blogburst, a blog syndication network that has relationships with major media outlets, including Reuters, Gannett, USA Today, and the Manchester Guardian.
Well, being part of Blogburst yielded wins two and three today, which, for me, is definitely something to celebrate.
Regarding "The Big Melt," the post [...]

Elizabeth Kolbert is a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine who in 2006 wrote the bestseller, Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change.
Earlier this year, in February 2008, Kolbert, certainly one of the most well-informed U.S. journalists and citizens on climate-related challenges, was interviewed by the Pittsburgh City Paper about what [...]

In my previous post, I wrote about Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, the Haida artist who illustrated the book Flight of the Hummingbird using his own Haida manga style.
As noted in that post, the hummingbird of the story tirelessly drops beads of water onto a great forest fire, presumably to little, if any, material effect. As the [...]

On Wednesday night, I attended a talk at Simon Fraser University by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, a mirthful Indigenous artist of the Haida people of British Columbia’s North Coast.
Once an artist-activist whose prime focus was to help to protect his ancestral lands from over-exploitation, Yahgulanaas describes himself now as a "Haida Manga" artist. His work addresses [...]

Predicting the future ain't all it's cracked up to be. There's a major gap between perception and reality, between the future we hope for and the one we fear (in the pit of our stomach) may come to pass given what we know.
Take Steven P. Jobs, CEO of Apple, Inc., arguably America's top technology evangelist [...]